The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

This is quite a different book by Mark Haddon. It is published by David Fickling books. It has 275 pages and costs Rs.399.

The protagonist of the book is Christopher John Francis Boone who is 15 years old. He has a superbly logical brain. He understands science and maths well but he can’t understand human emotions. He knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He lives on patterns, rules and timetables. He hates going out and having outside food. He also hates yellow and brown. Red was his favourite colour. He loves animals and he had a pet rat called Toby. One day his neighbour’s dog, Wellington was killed and this makes Christopher a terrier on the track. He starts to write a mystery novel, as he was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes. He starts with the curious incident of the dog in the night time, but ends up uncovering other mysteries too!

As I mentioned earlier, this book is very different and interesting. When I opened this book, I found this strange numbering of the chapters! But soon I after I started reading, I found out that this book’s chapters are numbered according to the prime numbers as Christopher loves them. This book also contains many designs and diagrams because it is based on the protagonist’s thoughts. The author was very successful in making the fictional character seem real! I should say this is a very original novel!

I would like to suggest this book to all the readers club members as it is exclusively available in the library for us!!

T.Anagha Sivadas

IX C, S4399